ICANN moves to retire Soviet-era .SU country domain name domainnamewire.com 16 points by kome 17 hours ago
lxgr 12 hours ago Weird/largely fraudy things seem to be happening on .su: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Beware-of-invalid-Germany-ticke...
Cpoll 10 hours ago Can the owners just pay the 200k to re-register it as a gTLD? bmandale 10 hours ago two character tlds are reserved as cctlds I believe
bronlund 11 hours ago I think it makes sense retiring a TLD for a soveregin state dissolved 34 years ago. This wouldn't be the first time a TLD has been retired and probably not the last.
tryauuum 14 hours ago would be cool if some domain guru could enlighten us on the truthFrom my point of view this will never happen. If there are 100000 people being charged for domains companies will find a way to continue doing so
In Soviet Russia, domain own.su
Weird/largely fraudy things seem to be happening on .su: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Beware-of-invalid-Germany-ticke...
Can the owners just pay the 200k to re-register it as a gTLD?
two character tlds are reserved as cctlds I believe
>Domain system overseer plans to retire .su in 2030.
Still too soon :)
I think it makes sense retiring a TLD for a soveregin state dissolved 34 years ago. This wouldn't be the first time a TLD has been retired and probably not the last.
would be cool if some domain guru could enlighten us on the truth
From my point of view this will never happen. If there are 100000 people being charged for domains companies will find a way to continue doing so